Gods and Robots. Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
124 Chapter 6 for the humans, naked and defenseless. Feeling pity, Prometheus gives mortals craft and fire. Ever after, the Gree ...
Pygmalion and prometheus 125 “Promethean heat,” in the form of electricity, animates the monster created from grafted parts of p ...
126 Chapter 6 in the vast collection of ancient and neoclassical gems amassed by the Scottish engraver and antiquarian James Tas ...
Pygmalion and prometheus 127 In some accounts, Zeus asked Prometheus to make the first humans. But Zeus also meted out revenge o ...
128 Chapter 6 rattling feathers that are “thin blades of iron and copper” and “beaks like swords,” the birds swoop down on young ...
129 CHAPTER 7 HEPHAESTUS DIVINE DEVICES AND AUTOMATA ONLY ONE GOD in Greco- Roman mythology has a trade. Not only does this ...
130 Chapter 7 temple in Chaeronea, one of the several artifacts attributed to Hephaes- tus seen by Pausanias (9.40.11– 12). 1 Th ...
hephaestus 131 descriptions of the individual pieces of armor follow. The shield is the centerpiece, made of “fine bronze, tin, ...
132 Chapter 7 male physique cast in bronze. The “anatomical” armor, also called the “heroic” or “muscle” cuirass, first appeared ...
Fig. 7.3. Vase painting of “heroic” cuirass, 325 BC, National Archaeological Museum of Spain. Photo by Marie- Lan Nguyen. ...
134 Chapter 7 matter what his body type— into a formidable, muscle- bound warrior. An advancing, clanking phalanx of Greek hopli ...
hephaestus 135 Fig. 7.4 (plate 4). Blacksmith at work, with tools, red- figure kylix, late sixth century BC, 1980.7. Bpk Bildage ...
Fig. 7.5. Top, blacksmith tools, about 250 BC, Museum für Vorgeschichte, Asparn, Zaya, Austria. Erich Lessing / Art Resource, NY ...
hephaestus 137 Argus never slept and could see in all directions with his many eyes, rang- ing from four to a hundred depending ...
138 Chapter 7 The ancient myth of a hypervigilant watcher that never sleeps and observes from all angles inspired Jeremy Bentham ...
hephaestus 139 century BC. The horse statue and inscriptions engraved on the bronze mirror have stumped Etruscan scholars and cl ...
Fig. 7.7 (plate 8). Hephaestus (Sethlans) and assistant (Etule) making an artificial horse (Pecse), Etruscan bronze mirror, four ...
hephaestus 141 clay is remarkably similar to the image of Sethlans/Hephaestus molding clay on the horse’s neck on the Etruscan m ...
142 Chapter 7 Besides the bronze phylax empsychos (“animated guard”) Talos, Hephaes- tus fashioned two other gifts for Minos ...
hephaestus 143 In the second century BC, the poet Nicander of Colophon interwove threads of these various tales to praise the or ...
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